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I'm thinking about starting a company similar to Uber but I have a scaling issue.

My idea is to build a platform where people cook and earn some cash and others buy the food from the producers.

I need some overall feedback on the idea and I'm wondering how I will get enough cookers to sustain the demand (if there will be any...). Perhaps I could start to cook myself in my local community and then try to get others to cook?

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Are the cooks driving around waiting for someone to ping them, then they go to the person's house and cook there? Or are the chefs in a central location, and people just order cooked meals to be delivered? Or do the chefs cook from their own homes?

I think Munchery uses the central location method, you can try and find out how they solved the scale issue if that's the strategy you'll be using: How It Works

New Contributor

Are the cooks driving around waiting for someone to ping them, then they go to the person's house and cook there? Or are the chefs in a central location, and people just order cooked meals to be delivered? Or do the chefs cook from their own homes?

I think Munchery uses the central location method, you can try and find out how they solved the scale issue if that's the strategy you'll be using: How It Works

my plan is that people will cook and others and pick up the food from the people cooking, however, this would mean that you would have to go to someone else house to pick up the food, which kinda makes this idea worse than a restaurant.
But perhaps there can be drivers delivering the food to the customers.

What do you think?
Maybe this concept isn't much better than restaurants and isn't really worth pursuing since it doesn't greatly improve something, or how can I make it better?

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my plan is that people will cook and others and pick up the food from the people cooking, however, this would mean that you would have to go to someone else house to pick up the food, which kinda makes this idea worse than a restaurant.
But perhaps there can be drivers delivering the food to the customers.

What do you think?
Maybe this concept isn't much better than restaurants and isn't really worth pursuing since it doesn't greatly improve something, or how can I make it better?

Also might be useful to have a look into the business model of hungryhouse or justeat (both UK listed) as they provide a platform for customers to find restaurants and provide online ordering and delivery

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I'm thinking about starting a company similar to Uber but I have a scaling issue.

My idea is to build a platform where people cook and earn some cash and others buy the food from the producers.

I need some overall feedback on the idea and I'm wondering how I will get enough cookers to sustain the demand (if there will be any...). Perhaps I could start to cook myself in my local community and then try to get others to cook?

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I worked with a company who had private chefs come to people's home for cheap. Sorta similar but not really.

It's gonna be hard for "chefs" starting out because they'll have no reviews or anything. Other sites like Fiverr have that problem too but it's different b/c on fiverr if someone messes up you can charge them back but with your app, if the chef messes up, welcome to food poisoning.

Also, why is this better than ordering delivery from a restaurant? If you live in a city with a decent amount of people you can pretty much get any type of food you like delivered.